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Lesson 11:   11-A   11-B   11-C   11-D
Experience:  By the end of this lesson, you should feel more comfortable using the pen tools and path selections tools to create precise selections.  Understanding how to use these tools will take your selections skills to a new level.

Objectives:
Section 11-A (Monday)
  • Introducing the Pen Tool - Path fundamentals
  • Drawing straight paths
Section 11-B (Tuesday)
  • Adding paths and points
  • Drawing smooth curves
Section 11-C (Wednesday)
  • Drawing cusp points
  • Coverting points
Section 11-D (Thursday)
  • Putting it all together
  • Exercises to try...
Picture
The Pen Tool is a very powerful selection tool. In this image, I used the pen tool to create a vector mask that cut the rose from its background.
USU students, all the assignments, discussions, exercise files, reading assignments for lesson 11 will be found in Canvas - Lesson 11 Module. See the image at right.

​If you're not a registered USU student, and you are working through this lesson on your own, links to the exercise files are provided within the lesson.
Review - Critiques - Share Techniques - in lesson 10 you created your portfolio exhibit 6. In the lesson 11 discussion, I will be asking you to evaluate two of the other students' exhibits.
This page last updated May 24, 2018.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2018 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.